[conservatrice]

They were thankful for the help they got, they rolled up their sleeves one and all and got to work rebuilding their towns and cities.

I was down in Biloxi, MS a month ago, and that was what I saw. Yes, people are living in FEMA trailers, but it's the churches that are helping them rebuild their houses. Look, I've been in blizzards.. bad blizzards. But there was nothing... NOTHING that could compare to what I saw down on the coast. And the stories I heard of people TRYING to leave but getting caught up in traffic and deciding it was better to stay home and hope for the best than to sit on the highway in a car while a Cat 4 hurricane tears you apart. The stories of people trying to escape the fast-rising flood by running up on-ramps, putting their kids in trees only to lose their wives to the flash flood. These are people who lost everything they WORKED their entire lives for. Everything in their houses had to be thrown out because the flood waters were toxic. Walls, floors, ceilings, had to be torn out due to the mold from flooding. Sure, they could do the work for themselves if they had the tools, if they weren't elderly, if everyone they knew and loved wasn't in the exact same situation with the same lack of resources.

My point is, you really don't know what you're talking about. You can't compare what you haven't seen or experienced in some way.

[Leatherneck_MT]

Where in my post did you see me say anything about Ole Miss?

This is about New Orleans.

The folks in Miss did it right. They got hammered BAD, but they didn't bitch or complain.

Now, before you start claiming that people don't know what they are talking about, maybe you should take a look at the post and READ it before opening your mouth.

I have BEEN through these storms before. Bad ones, I've had to live weeks without electricity and water other than what we had stowed up. I've been part of rescue efforts up and down the south east coast.

I Know alot more about what I am talking about than you think.

If you don't like the post, there's a simple solution to it.

Move on